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Dell PowerEdge R920 with Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD Claims a New World Record

Continuing the trend of producing world record performance in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) workspace, Dell has published another top 4-socket score on the SAP SD Two-Tier Benchmark*. With this submission, Dell also introduces our new solid-state storage solution, Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD, a high-performance, solid-state device. This technology combined with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server running SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 16, and the Intel Xeon Processor E7-4800 v2 product family reasserts Dell PowerEdge R920 as a leadership enterprise solution provider in the 4-socket arena. Let’s take a closer look at how Dell solutions stack up against similar competitive platforms in the ERP workspace.

* Benchmark results based on best SAP SD Two-Tier results published as of April 2014. For the latest SAP SD Two-Tier results, visit: http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx .

This latest world record performance in the SAP SD two-tier benchmark is just one example of Dell PowerEdge R920 leadership. The SAP SD two-tier workload has been developed by SAP and its partners to determine both hardware and database performance of SAP applications and components. The benchmark itself is a simulation of a SAP Sales & Distribution scenario. This simulation is carried out by multiple clients (companies) with users making orders concurrently for a sustained period of time with a predetermined set number of users. The metrics quoted by the benchmark are only considered successful when the host system exhibits the ability to sustain a maximum number of users working concurrently while delivering sub-second average response times. In the case of this discussion, we are specifically looking at the metric “number of benchmark users” as our measurement of throughput.

As promised in my last blog posting, this is the second chapter in this leadership story for Dell and the PowerEdge R920. Be on the lookout for more stories of how Dell and our PowerEdge portfolio help power businesses and communities.